This book is a new release and will be
published on September 4, 2007.

General Description:

About this Book

This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the
most beloved and important religious figures in
history.

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the
poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all
religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick,
the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look
after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little
is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles.
This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which
have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's
interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her
holiness for the first time.

Compiled and presented by Fr.
Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years
and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of
the Mother Teresa Center, MOTHER TERESA brings together letters she
wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of
her spiritual journey—including moments, indeed years, of utter
desolation—these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her
closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life
burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and
purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the
soul.

Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her
death, MOTHER TERESA is an intimate portrait of a woman whose life
and work continue to be admired by millions of people.

Quotes

“If I ever become a Saint—I will surely be one of “darkness.” I
will continually be absent from Heaven—to lit the light of those in
darkness on earth .”
—Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Born in Skopje in 1910, MOTHER TERESA joined the Sisters of
Loreto in Dublin in 1928 and was sent to India, where she began her
novitiate. She taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta from
1931 to 1948, until leaving the Loreto order to begin the
Missionaries of Charity. Through her sisters, brothers, and priests,
her service of the poorest of the poor spread all around the world.
She won many awards, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. After her
death in 1997, the process for her sainthood was quickly begun and
she was beatified in 2003.

FR. BRIAN KOLODIEJCHUK, M.C., Ph.D., was born in Winnipeg,
Canada. He met Mother Teresa in 1977 and was associated with her
until her death in 1997. He joined the Missionaries of Charity
Fathers at the time of their foundation in 1984. Fr. Brian is
postulator of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Mother
Teresa of Calcutta and director of the Mother Teresa Center.